Seven synthetic patient records were manually created to capture typical medical record data: demographic information, contact information, family his- tory, life style data, allergies, immunizations, information on conditions, procedures, prescriptions, and visits to health care providers. These records are by no means com- plete, or unabridged. In practice, clinicians often base care on similar records when treating patients. Patients typically seen by care providers in one health care network, using one EHR system, may visit another hospital outside their network that uses a completely different EHR system. This results in an unfortunate, but common real- world scenario that forces the creation of a duplicate EHR, often simplistic and.
